Squat hate

>>41846745
maybe it's a mobility issue?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSSDLDhbacc

Squats are my least favorite exercise, so I said fuck them and leg press instead.

I can diddly lmao3pl but can't squat 2pl

>>41846810
Leg press is way more comfortable for me, despite everybody saying it's harder on your body. Feels bad, because I could get behind a linear progression on legpress, but everybody says it's worthless and you have to squat, but squat makes me want to die.

>doing legs ever

nice meme

>>41846745
do it without the bounce and relax mentally.
Don't bulk accept you are ausschwitz mode.
Change the squat forms(front, bulgarian, high,low, goblet) that way you don't increase the weight and stress every workout, while gaining muscular legs.
Do stretches or you will soon get abdominal pain+ low back pain.
Rippletoe is a hack

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>>41848303
leg press is fine for working legs dude, the only difference is that you won't get as strong a posterior chain which isnt a problem if you deadlift and train core anyways

>>41846745
>>41846810
>>41848303
Switch to lowbar, squat as low as you can without rounding your back. Experiment with stance width and toe angle to find what feels best for you. Highbar squats are just shit for some people, regardless of how good your mobility is.

>>41846745
The bounce doesn't happen when you ease into it. Most likely your problem is that you're stiff and not warming up properly which is limiting your squatting ability. A natural squat while have you go to parallel or lower and immediately bounce out of the hole using your hips and hamstrings. If either of these aren't warmed up fully then your squat will pause at a point and you'll have to ease into which takes the tension out of your hips/hams.
Do mobility work before and after your work out and take the time to warm up properly or you'll fuck your shit up eventually

>>41850036
OP here. I said I'm doing SS. I am doing lowbar squat.

>>41850059
I stretch before working out, then warm up doing 2x5 with the bar, then 1x5 at 40% working weight, then 1x3 at 60%, then 1x2 at 80%, then 3x5 at working weight. How much more warming up does it take?

>discomfort when approaching parallel and have tremendous difficulty achieving a "bounce" out of the hole

There is no bounce in low bar squat

>>41848303
>despite everybody saying it's harder on your body

Literally nobody says that

>>41850599
Do you have the third edition of Starting Strength? Rippetoe explains for a page or two how lowbar squat, properly executed, has a bounce out of the hole. I'd give you the page number, but I'm at the gym and my copy is at home.

>>41850609
You haven't browsed /fit/ for long.

Anybody else get an aggravated IT band from squats?

I always struggle on my final squat set (doing strong lifts), but Saturday was awful. I genuinely felt like just dropping the weight and pussying out after 3 reps. I didn't, of course, but my final reps barely went to parallel.

I do stretches for about a minute before warm up weights, my form on 80% workload is on point, but it starts to fail after the first set of my working weight.

I usually only wait 90 seconds on Early squat sets. Maybe I should wait 3 mins minimum on squats in the future.

>>41846745
Do lowbar, make sure the bar moves a straight path over the middle of the foot. Watch these https://youtu.be/yWRkBH_q_Ag

>>41851564
Don't stretch to much besides the essential (leg kicks side and front, wall stretch , cat camel, idk) don't do sl it's too much volume. just do ss or drop sl lifts to 3 sets. Plus any problems with sleep and diet will make you feel shit.

>>41851607
I do. It does. SS teaches lowbar, so that's what I do. I've read the book and watched Rippetoe's tutorials at least three times through.

>>41846745
I do squats for energy.
Anyone else?

>>41850538
Do pause squats to warm up